{"id":276549,"date":"2026-05-03T00:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276549\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:58:07","slug":"eric-eager-nazlee-burney-take-early-leads-in-richardson-isd-school-board-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/276549\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Eager, Nazlee Burney take early leads in Richardson ISD school board races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPosted 7:11 p.m. May 2<\/p>\n<p>Early voting results for Dallas County show incumbent Eric Eager and Nazlee Burney leading Richardson ISD elections for At-Large Place 6 and District 3 on the board of trustees.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>Trustee Eric Eager, who was first elected to the school board in November 2020, is leading in the race for <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/richardson\/education\/2026\/03\/25\/qa-meet-the-candidates-running-for-the-richardson-isd-school-board-place-6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">At-Large Place 6<\/a> with 65.83% of the votes, or 2,476 votes. Blake Sawyer is trailing with 34.17% and 1,285 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Early voting totals show Nazlee Burney leading in the race for the <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/dallas-fort-worth\/richardson\/education\/2026\/03\/24\/qa-meet-the-candidates-for-richardson-isd-school-board-district-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">District 3<\/a> seat, with 66.32% and 386 votes. Euan Blackman has 26.12% and 152 votes, followed by Luis Fernando Rojas at 7.56% with 44 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Trustee Debbie Renter\u00eda, the current District 3 trustee, chose not to seek reelection.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p>Voting totals from election day on May 2 have not yet been released, as polls were open until 7 p.m., or until those in line cast their vote.<\/p>\n<p>Community Impact will update this article as more vote totals are released. All results are unofficial until canvassed.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/voter-guide<\/a> to see results from all contested local and state elections in your community.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted 7:11 p.m. May 2 Early voting results for Dallas County show incumbent Eric Eager and Nazlee Burney&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[29062,102312,409,160,162,161,5810,8789,2279],"class_list":["post-276549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-board-of-trustees","tag-early-results","tag-election","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-richardson-isd","tag-school-board","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}